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Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Aug. 7th 2009

Another week draws to a close, which means another weekly round-up. Discover Greenwich’s dirty secret, Australia’s war on camels, what makes this the best time to be a skeptic and why Americans should pay attention to Spaniards.

And don’t miss the bubbly goodness in Part Five. Grab your liquid of choice and dig in to the wonder that is the GWHWRU…

Preferring to ignore the cold outside, Al has been spreading the only green that matters around Washington to push the ‘climate crisis’ to his political chums. Al forgot to disclose any of his lobbying efforts when he testified in front of the Waxman-Malarkey panel, but hey, he’s a Democrat and that’s how they roll. These days at least.

John Kerry, he of the long face, is famous for getting his arse handed to him by George Bush in an election. Just like Al. No wonder then that that the losers stick together. It’s like AV club all over again for Al and JK. Al applauds this nonsense from Kerry:

“…a handshake between Nixon and Chinese premier Zhou Enlai was enough to change the world. Today, the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter and history’s biggest emitter, China and America, must change the world again – and nothing less than a transformation of the energy economy will suffice.”

John and Al go antiquing

For the Goreacle, allowing minion ex-bosses and fellow election losers to cover the hard stuff leaves him free to get after the big fish, like campaigning for a .eco domain. While you might expect me to mock this effort, in fact I have to support it. Because .eco would become the Internet equivalent of California – and we’d know where to find all the nuts. Nice and tidy.

Gore and other members of the Copenhagen Climate Council, including the world’s largest producer of wind turbines, Vestas, present their demands for carbon-trading schemes as altruistic efforts to clean up the planet. In truth, these green-leaning profit-making machines stand to gain significantly if the activities of their less green competitors are hampered by government demands.

Followers of Canada’s David Suzuki, the fruit-fly geneticist turned eco-totalitarian, are taken to the proverbial woodshed by a letter writer from rural Ottawa valley. That’s like Canada’s ‘deliverance’ country, or something.

“They bought every industry off—steel mills, agriculture, utilities…. I would not only not vote for it. I am opposed to it entirely, because it does damage to those of us who believe that we need to act in a rational fashion about climate change.”

Many global warming scaremongers are less concerned with the state of the planet than they are with the number of people on it. How perfect then that they recommend having one less kid to ‘save the planet’. Parents have until noon next Tuesday to pick out their least favorite.

“Today, millions of people are already suffering because of climate change,” said Kofi Annan, President of the Global Humanitarian Forum, a tcktcktck founding partner. “Although developing countries did not cause the climate crisis, poor nations are suffering the most as unpredictable weather patterns and the increase in natural disasters affects access to food, water and shelter. We must end the deathly silence around this crisis because it is a major impediment for international action. Those helping raise awareness of the crisis through journalism should be praised for doing so, especially as December’s international climate talks in Copenhagen approach.”

In an Antipodean clash of victim groups, global warmers faced off with Aborigines over river use. The greens were called fascists by the aborigines and they in turn were called… indigenous people. Strike 1 for the Abo’s. What makes this stuff so entertaining is that in leftworld a victim hierachy exists: for instance black beats white, gay beats straight etc. ‘Indigenous people’ trumps everything except a vertically challenged blacktino transgendered single-parent with HIV and a limp, so there is no way for the greens to win this fight. Heh.

You knew that sooner or later the war on warmth would turn ugly. Skeptics of the world, I give you… baby emissions. The anti-human depopulation cult is demonizing babies for their cholicy emissions. The answer, of course, is less kids. Fortunately fewer children won’t be a problem if Obama’s cap and trade takes out millions of acres of farmland. If that happens the only choice will be which kid do you eat first?

Part Three: Inconvenient Truths

The US Government expanded it’s cash for clunkers program in an effort to stimulate car sales, or save car companies, or help car dealers, or save the planet. Insert your own dysfunctional reason for paying people to scrap perfectly usable vehicles here. Unfortunately the part about saving the planet.. yeah, not so much. More on the not-so-recyclable clunkers.

Climate scaremongers would have you believe that science is all about ‘consensus’. It’s about no such thing, of course, unless you are one of the lefty sheeple, in which case following the dear leader is how you roll. Awkward for lefties then, that the consensus is crumbling down around their ears. In Germany no less, where the extreme left was quite fond of following populist leaders without much thought of the consequences.

Hey, this guy says it’s the best of times for skeptics. I’m not going to disagree when the Weekly Round-Up is more popular than ever with each passing week. (Thanks, by the way)

Kevin Rudd (again?) sort of admitted that 50,000 new green jobs weren’t actually new. Or jobs. Awkward. Just a thought for my Aussie readers, but allowing a man called Kevin to be PM? Kev’s should be driving a ’94 Ford Escort with fluffy dice, not running a country. And before you get all sniffy, Canada has a Stephen, so we’re no better. To any readers named Kevin or Stephen, sorry about your luck, just kidding.

Putting the CO2 paranoia more in perspective, 2 percent of the atmosphere is greenhouse gases, of which CO2 represents only 3.6 percent. Of this, about 3.4 percent may be attributed to human activity, meaning that only 0.0024 percent of the atmosphere is affected by human-generated CO2. The United States only contributes about 22 percent of CO2 generated by the world’s population, meaning that even if we totally eliminated all human-generated CO2 in America, it would only have a 0.00053 percent effect on the Earth’s atmosphere!

ABC (the Oz version) didn’t much care for a lukewarm response an interviewee gave about global warming. So they asked him again, and got a ‘better’ answer. That’s media coverage you can count on, right there.

Take Spain, whose experiments with clean-energy subsidies—especially for solar power—created a bubble with nearly disastrous consequences for the global solar industry.

What happened? Sunny Spain didn’t have a lot of solar power. The government decided to increase the subsidies for solar power, just as other countries such as Germany were dialing back their own support. Under Spanish law, solar-powered electricity was five times as valuable as coal-fired electricity—and those returns were guaranteed by law.

The result? Solar power exploded in Spain last year, and small developers installed more than 3,000 megawatts. Investing in solar-power projects was a no-brainer from a financial point of view.

The problem was that the 30,000 solar-power projects installed last year didn’t actually provide much electricity—but cost the government more than $1.4 billion. The rapid growth of solar power also made life more difficult for the folks that run Spain’s power grid.

In response, the Spanish government drastically cut subsidies and put a ceiling on solar installations, essentially freezing the market. All the solar-power companies who’d built factories to supply the exploding market found themselves without customers—and that included manufacturers as far away as Germany and China. Ever since, the global solar sector has been singing the blues.

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Part Five: Global Hottie

This week we welcome a perennial favorite hottie back into the (center) fold. She’s not been in the news much, isn’t particularly green and has supported the troops, which makes he OK in my book. Also making her OK in my book, steaming hotness.

Skeptics, you’ve done a lot of reading to get here, and your clicky finger might be tired, but just one more click will bring cork-popping delight to wrap up this edition of the round-up.

Absolutely loved the comic on drilling core samples! I was wondering this last winter if drilling all those holes doesn’t have an impact – and they can’t seem to get enough of them. It’s the same with all the eco-tourism and setting out buoys to measure ocean temperature. I don’t think they’ve taken their own contributions into consideration.